Abdul Azim al-Deeb () (1929 - 5 January 2010) was a professor at

Qatar University Qatar University (; transliterated: Jami'at Qatar) is a public research university located on the northern outskirts of Doha, Qatar. It is the only public university in the country. The university hosts twelve colleges – Arts and Sciences, Bu ...

. Born in Gharbia,

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, he was educated in the

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primary and secondary schools, and enrolled in the ranks of the

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. He studied with Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi and then graduated from the Faculty of Dar El-Ulum,

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. He received a master's degree on the study of the life of Imam Jouini and the effect of his work, and then received a doctorate degree with honors on the same subject. He moved to Qatar in 1976, where he served as professor and head of the Department of Jurisprudence, Faculty of

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of the University of Qatar, His scientific writings on studying the Islamic heritage using scientific methods drew much attention. He continued to work on the heritage of Imam Jouini. He compiled the jurisprudential masterpiece of Jouini, "Ghiyath al-Umam, Mughith al-Khalq, Nihaya al-Matlab fi Diraya al-Madhhab ("The End of the Quest in the Knowledge of the School"), an Encyclopedia of forty-four volumes with eleven thousand pages, which the scholar Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, president of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, described as of "meritorious service to the Islamic library."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Deeb, Abdul Azim 1929 births 2010 deaths Egyptian Muslims 20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Egyptian emigrants to Qatar Academic staff of Qatar University Cairo University alumni International Union of Muslim Scholars members People from Gharbia Governorate Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood members